Richard Ford (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
In Richard Ford’s novel The Sportswriter, the title character remarks, “The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being.” This observation sums up a central aspect of Ford’s fiction, which elevates the undramatic concerns of ordinary people above the banality of their situations to a level of universal meaning and significance.
A sketch of Ford’s early life reads much like the biography of one of his fictional characters. (Indeed, he has incorporated autobiographical elements into the lives of several of his...
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